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A 28-year-old man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the shootings of his girlfriend and her parents during an argument at their home in Memphis.
Police in Memphis say a man suspected of fatally shooting his girlfriend and her parents surrendered to authorities two hours later with his 4-year-old daughter in tow.
Memphis officials on Thursday approved naming a city street after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., nearly 44 years after the civil rights leader was killed in the city.
The United States was still a young nation when three major earthquakes rocked the central Mississippi River valley in the winter of 1811-1812.
Elvis Presley Enterprises says three new exhibits will open next year at Graceland in Memphis to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the entertainer's death.
Memphis athletic director R.C. Johnson said Monday he is retiring next year, making the announcement a day after head football coach Larry Porter was fired.
Occupy Memphis member Mallory Pope had just finished telling a group of about 75 tea party followers Thursday night that politicians should not allow themselves to be influenced by lobbyists and unions when she received an unexpected invitation.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis has started the public phase of its campaign to raise $40 million for a major renovation of the old Lorraine Motel, the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968.
Voters overwhelmingly re-elected Memphis mayor A C Wharton over nine rivals Thursday, giving the Democrat a hefty mandate to continue another four years after a short stint leading his impoverished Southern city through tough, gritty times.
A juvenile court judge ruled Wednesday that a 16-year-old boy accused of fatally stabbing the female principal of his Memphis private school and leaving her in a pool of blood in a classroom should be tried as an adult.
A 16-year-old Christian school student charged with fatally stabbing his principal told police he spent the night before the attack sharpening a knife, court documents say.
Silent mourners with heads bowed and yellow-orange candlelight leading the way paid their respects to Elvis Presley at his grave at Graceland, his longtime Memphis home, to remember the 34th anniversary of his sudden death.
Elvis Presley fans love an anniversary.
A 17-year-old student charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of a Christian school principal told investigators he had planned to stab the woman on the third day of classes, when he knew he'd be alone with her in a classroom, police said Thursday.
A federal judge has ruled that the merger between Memphis City Schools and its surrounding county school district is legal.
Relatives and friends of the late former NBA star Lorenzen Wright, whose killing remains unsolved, pleaded for the community's help and prayed for justice Thursday night during a candlelight vigil that marked one year since his body was found in southeast Memphis.
Memphis' sanitation workers, including some who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during a 1968 garbage strike, scored a victory when the city council passed a budget without privatizing solid waste collection, but it may be a temporary win.
A jury issued a death sentence Saturday for a Memphis man found guilty of murdering the mother of his three children and then dismembering and disposing of her body.
Javier Campos returned to his neighborhood for the first time in nearly a month Monday to find the serene little enclave of fishing camps and homes a putrid, mud-caked mess after the historic flooding of the Mississippi River.
A farming community built for evacuees of Hurricane Katrina has become a haven for families driven from their homes by river flooding that has hit states from Arkansas to Louisiana.
As the Mississippi reaches its high point in Memphis and attention turns to a time-consuming clean up, farmers downriver built homemade levees to protect their crops and engineers diverted water into a lake to ease the pressure on New Orleans levees.
The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes. But officials were confident the levees would protect the city's world-famous musical landmarks, including Graceland and Beale Street, and that no new areas would have any serious flooding.
Forecasters say the Mississippi River could crest late Monday at Memphis — hours sooner than previously predicted — but the mayor says the city's ready for it.
Forecasters say the Mississippi could crest at Memphis sooner than expected late Monday, but the mayor says the city is ready for it.
Getting the word out through TV and online isn't enough for Memphis officials who were going door-to-door warning a couple hundred people that they should abandon their homes before they are swamped by waters from the rising Mississippi River.
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